A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYIt is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them – the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It’s by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I’m human.
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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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I love mankind, he said, “but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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